Link To Create Desktop Shortcut?

Is there a way to make a link that actually creates a desktop shortcut? I have a page that gives links to files on our intranet but I know of people who try and make shortcuts for these files. It would be nice if I could put a link next to the link for the file that would make a shortcut.

Edited August 1, 2005 by Johnny (see edit history)

Explain more what you need, your not making much sense...

I don't think it would be possible. You'd have to figure out the path to the desktop. On Windows this is C:\Documents and Settings\%USERNAME%\Desktop, I don't remember Linux's, and something else on Mac. You can get the OS with PHP's $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'], but I don't think it's possible to write a file to the desktop.You could always just tell people to drag their link to the desktop.

Edited August 4, 2005 by KuBi (see edit history)

Its also different on different windows versions different on ME, 200/NT, XP

I'm sure there's a php script out there which could get the operating system of a user and I'm sure you could use fopen(), fwrite(), and fclose() to create the shortcut. I'm not sure it that's actually works, but you put the following code into notepad:

 

start http://mysite.somehost.com/

and save it as an open.exe and run it and if memory serves this should act as a shortcut. I'm not promising that it will work, it's just something I remember reading Just read Command Prompt help guide and now I'm 90% sure it will.

 

C:\Documents and Settings\%USERNAME%\Desktop

It's easier than that to find out the path to a Windows user's desktop. It's %USERPROFILE%\Desktop. This takes out the trouble of finding out the user's username which would probably require ActiveX.

I Think Build key for acess to web on desktop is good Idea
I build one project with VB and i make it
Just build one (.url) file in vb and then put your link on this file :

[DEFAULT]URL=Your site Your . Put Url
Modified=0007A9F3A2F7C40101

And then Put this file on Your site for user downloads
But afther You must write one String to find Desktop address on user systems Its not hard ,

You can simply create a shortcut from windows and then upload the shortcut file to your site.

• Right click on desktop.
  
• Select New > Shortcut
  
• Put your URL in the space, click Next and then Finish
  
• Upload this shortcut to your site
  

Note: the shortcut extention is ".Url"

send shortcut to desktop button on my websiteLink To Create Desktop Shortcut?

I made the shortcut on my desktop according to the previous post, but I don't understand what to do with it now. And I still don't know how to make a button that will send this shortcut to somebody's desktop when they press it. Here is an "add to favorites button" that I have. Can anybody edit this to be a "send shortcut to desktop"?

<input id="btnBookmark" type="button" value="Add to favorites" onclick="window.External.AddFavorite(location.Href, document.Title);">

And isnt there any way to make a better shortcut image? It's just a plain paper icon with my tiny favicon on it.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. I have been looking for this code for a while and apparantly nobody is doing it.-question by stephen